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Fowler Says He Would Classify Floyd’s Death as ‘Undetermined’
Dr. David Fowler, former Maryland chief medical examiner, testified on Wednesday that he would classify George Floyd’s death as “undetermined,” with a primary cause of cardiac arrhythmia during police restraint.
So in my opinion, Mr. Floyd had a sudden cardiac arrhythmia, or cardiac arrhythmia, due to his atherosclerotic and hypertensive heart disease, or you can write that down multiple different ways. During his restraint and subdual by the police or restrained by the police, and then his significant contributory conditions would be, since I’ve already put the heart disease in part one, he would have the toxicology, the fentanyl and methamphetamine. There is exposure to a vehicle exhaust. So potentially carbon monoxide poisoning or at least an effect from increased carbon monoxide in his bloodstream and a paraganglioma or the other natural disease process that he has. So all of those combined to ca
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Maryland state senators on Friday advanced a set of nine police reform bills, but some call the effort baby steps for transformative change.
Senate leaders concede the slate of reforms is not perfect, but they said they believe it is a step in the right direction.
Final passage of the legislation in the Senate is expected next week, which is also when the House will take up more stringent measures. There is growing concern about whether there will be enough time to reconcile differences between the House and Senate bills.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, representing more than 90 community groups, considers the package insulting and is calling on the House to do a better job.
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One Prince George’s County resident after another described their loved one’s fatal encounter with police brutality. Some survived; others did not.
“My cousin sat in a car handcuffed and was shot six times,” Nikki Owens said about her cousin William Green and started to cry.
“You really don’t treat a dog the way they treated my son. They shot him 14 times,” Dorothy Elliot said about her son Artie Elliot, also fighting tears.
Family members of Maryland residents who were brutalized or killed by police are fighting for changes to state laws, they said Wednesday.